Dominique is Associate Professor in Bioethics and Professionalism in the School of Medicine at Deakin University, Australia. She studied Medicine and Arts as undergraduate degrees, with majors in Philosophy and English. She completed a PhD in Applied Ethics at the University of Melbourne in 2011 on the topic of markets in human biological materials. Dominique's bioethics research currently focuses on ethical issues in nephrology and in donation and transplantation of human organs, cells, and tissues. She has co-authored more than 60 journal articles and book chapters and has served as an ethics consultant to the Australian Organ and Tissue Authority, the Qatar Organ Donation Center and the World Health Organization.

Dominique is a member of the ethics task force of the International Society of Nephrology and of the Doha International Academy for Organ Donation, and inaugural chair of the Asia Pacific Bioethics Education Network. She is a former co-chair of the Ethics Committee of The Transplantation Society and of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group and serves as an Associate Editor for Transplantation.